Senior IT Security Consultant

Thanks Rex. I'm sure the OP (rps) appreciates your speedy work as well :) . I noticed the 'CMD expanding variable before set on same cmdline' thing and meant to mention it too, but of course that's only an issue with the echo output. The real issue was with the 'set /p' part which does work as written with CMD... I'm guessing rps made the example as a quick one liner for demonstration purposes only under TCC.